What was it like, gaming in the 80s?
Is there any boomer alive here to tell us?
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What was it like, gaming in the 80s? Is there any boomer alive here to tell us?
What was it like, gaming in the 80s?
Is there any boomer alive here to tell us?
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let me tell you kid
the 80s was frickin WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILD
there was so much
PURPLE AND PINK LIGHTS AND
and PAC MAN and TRANSFORMERS and SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS and VIDEO GAMES and Reagan and ALLLL THAT STUFFFF
It was AMAZING let me tell you
you little homosexual kids wouldn't know TODAYYYY let me tell yhou THAT for sure
FUUUCCCKKK I MISS THE EIGHTIES
WE had BOOOBS we had TV We had NICKELODEON We had NINTENDO we had ALLLLL OF IT
AND THEN YOU MIL:LENIAL zoomer FRICKS came in and RUINED evyerthing great about it
now its just a
a HUSK
a fricking HUSK i tell you
of what it once was
>WE had BOOOBS
I am almost 40 and I have boobs now. I definitely didn't have boobs as a kid.
you're going to get meme answers regardless
it's all gonna be some sort of variety of this
which is super fricking gay
the 80s was a weird decade with lots of things segregated to certain parts of culture
otherwise if you just want to play games that are good or if better than from the 80s
you don't need to look far
Lots of microtransactions in the form of arcades.
Some older kid was always better than everyone and hogged the machine
We were lucky to get 2 games a year, one for christmas and one for birthday, and we played the shit out of them.
games were harder
no guides, cheat codes were word of mouth, also cheat codes existed
Was pretty cool but modern games are more fun
That when people talk about "SOUL" they generally refer to shitty graphics and very basic gameplay.
Very basic gameplay is all you really need though
just make it fun and challenging it does not matter if the controls are the challenge that's makes another layer of fun for me and lots of people
besides AAA babies who will cry if their game isn't 100 percent smooth on a controller
Yeah, you missed out. Now you need lootboxes to get your fix.
as if they weren't already milking the quarters from our pockets in the 80s too
>but the arcade
oh please b***h that's nothing compared to what happens today
a 130$ skin isn't required to play the game.
Probably Dragons Lair. It was like nothing else at the time.
Honorable mentions go to Pac Man, Star Wars and Tron
And that means nothing it might be optional
but it's way worse than anything the 80s ever did in greed
Imagine a game releases on the app store and you have to pay 25c ever time you want to play it.
I guarantee you this would get significantly more headlines than Diablo Immortal
You do realize metal gear survive charged you for a save slot right? also every mmo ever charges you to play the game monthly besides like maplestory if not they have something way worse
Let me put it this way.
Imagine wow charged you every time you logged in, then again every time you died.
Imagine you were charged every time you started a race, whether or not you finished.
Imagine the game is intentionally designed to make you lose as quickly as possible so you have to pay to try again.
It's just as egregious. It never went away, it just changed forms.
>it just changed forms
optional. You don't have to pay $27000 to play the game
Optional means nothing when the game acts like a casino flashy menus and colors and all
arguably there's no excuse for this type of shit because it practically disappeared in the 90s and instead you just got cheap ass standalone expansion packs
It means everything.
Imagine you have to pay 25c to make every post on Ganker.
The gaming industry has always been shitty, and if you think otherwise you're looking back with rose tinted glasses.
The whole thing has been designed from the ground up to suck up as much money from people as possible.
There was a golden period between when arcades died and internet became widespread, where you paid once for a game and that was it, you had the game. This was an anomaly
>It means everything.
NTA but it means nothing in terms of how profitable or how scummy and predatory company actions are.
By your logic free to play games are less predatory than one time payment ones, when it's clearly not the case.
The F2P model makes way more money.
>He renamed the screenshot to ''130$skin''
KEK
Amazing! Lots of games in 5 1/4 and cartriges. Pirated, obivously.
Heard of NES but didn't care because MSX had great games already.
I played Mario when it was brand new (well a couple of years old) and it was hugely impressive. Mario 3 was fricking mindblowing. The big fight in my area was between the Master System and the NES. My stepbrother convinced me to get the Master System at first because "NES graphics are too small" (I still don't know what that's meant to mean). Luckily my best mate was also a massive game-head so our mums let us swap console every now and again with whatever games we'd accrued. Was a pretty good setup.
What is GOTD for the 80s? Or are there any essential video games to play from that era?
There's plenty but game of the decade will be decided if you care about some obscure game you will never play or if you never actually went further than that
most likely it would have been super mario bros 3 or something on the snes like castlevania
if not we could go for the normie decision of legend of zelda
Mario/Mario 3
Space Harrier
Outrun
Zelda 1/2
Knight Lore
Attic Attak
Sabrewulf
Anon, these are common knowledge.
Tetris
Falcom PC games (Dragon Slayer, Xanadu, Ys I & II, Sorcerian, etc)
Nintendo titles (Super Mario Bros., Lost Levels, Mario 2, Metroid, Zelda, etc.)
Capcom arcade/console games (Megaman 2, 1942, Ghosts 'n Goblins, Street Fighter, Strider, Bionic Commando)
Enix titles (Dragon Quest I ~ III, too many PC-88/98 games to list)
Squaresoft titles (Final Fantasy I ~ III)
Namco titles (Pac-Man, Galaga, Xevious, etc)
Taito titles (Elevator Action, Arkanoid, Darius, Bubble Bobble, etc)
Konami Arcade/console titles (The Maze of Galious, The Tower of Druaga, Contra, Metal Gear, Gradius, etc)
Sega Arcade/Console titles (Outrun, Golden Axe, Space Harrier, Phantasy Star)
Anything by Technos (Double Dragon, Renegade, River City Ransom, etc.)
Great album
I caught the tail end, but I remember my parents playing the Atari. Space Invaders, some kung-gu game, Commando, formula 1. Going shopping for joystick controllers with a bunch of red buttons all over it. Didn't get an NES until about 1990 so I didn't experience the Nintendo in the 80's. Just Atari. Every Saturday night we'd all play it together.
it sucked
TVs sucked
consoles sucked
portables sucked
gaming didn't git gud until 1989 when the Gameboy came out.
>TVs sucked
CRTs were awesome. near 0 latency, high refresh rates
CRTs OF THE 80s sucked. I clarify.
oh yea? and what games were those? allow me to describe:
-repetitive shmup
-basic platformer
-something so low graphics you needed the manual to know what you were looking at
oh yea those were the days. Jesus Christ.
>but graphics
>but genre
>but reading is hard
cry all you want, 80s gaming will continue to suck forever. Unlike you I was actually there.
>consoles sucked
you're a moron everything loaded up instantly
Every time I went with my father to go shopping, he would give me money to buy lunch. I always intentionally bought a cheap lunch, and used all the change to hit up the arcade. The games were pretty hard, but a lot of fun. This would last about an hour, and he'd come get my brother and I to go shopping after we had our game time. This happened once a month, and was the only time he'd explicitly let us go to the arcade, since it wasn't out of the way or really hurting his schedule.
I'M JUST PLAYIMG GAMES
I KNOW THAT'S PLAASTIC LOOOOOOOOOVE
For me its Tatsuro Yamashita - Marry-Go-Round
Based. My favorites from him are "Morning Shine", "Sprinkler", and "Magic Ways"
>tons of this stuff seeing a resurgence because of gays twisting it for vaporwave, slapping them into futurefunk remixes or running it through audacity to give it the ole nightcore treatment
the good part is that most of the companies are either defunct or don't give a shit about copyright striking everything in sight unlike some thinskinned homosexuals out there.
For me it's Groovin' and Morning Glory
Based album
post it
Genuinely upsets me that women don't have hair like this anymore
I was born the year the NES came out and the same month, too. It was fun enough, but honestly the best part of the 80s was getting to be 10 years old right around the early 90s when the Genesis and SNES came out.
THAT was peak gaming.
tl;dr- the 80s were a stepping stone to the kino 90s. Good movies though; Ghostbusters 1 is still my favorite and I saw 2 in theaters when it was new lel
Larp the thread
>people weren't born in the 80s
God, zoomers are so fricking moronic holy shit
Every mall, restaurant, and laundry mat had at least a handful of arcades, if not pinball machines. Few places, other than arcades themselves, had the same games.
You sometimes could find games in table form, called wienertail cabinets. They were my favorite but only a few games had such cabinets.
I had a couple relatives who got into early console gaming but they didn't like it. I did like it and they had them ready to go whenever I visited. Atari 2600, 5200, and the PONG stand-alone console.
When my mother left for the hospital to give birth to my brother, I stayed at my grandma's and played galaxian all night.
My parents couldn't afford to buy consoles until the 90's, but we rented the NES for a while after it came out. You have no idea how happy I was when it was finally ours.
PC gaming sucked though. I had no exposure other than through Apple II and the oregon trail was the only good one, only like one or two kids I knew had pc games and only because their dads worked in high tech jobs.
I was born in 1990 so I didn't live to see the 80s looked cool >though
I can tell already this thread is going to be full of zoomies pretending they were born in 1980 because of the bussin Stranger Things. Also if anyone on Ganker.org was alive to have solid memories of gaming in the 1980s then they are utter fricking failures of human beings to be on this board at their age.
>utter fricking failures
nah, see this site was made for us. You're here now in the prime of your life instead of partying and getting pussy in the age of the internet hookups where you can get labia on a fricking app.
You are 100000% worse than us you genetic deadend zoomie homosexual
>What was it like, gaming in the 80s?
>Is there any boomer alive here to tell us?
I'm an early millenial, but from eastern Europe. We were couple of years behind. My first console was Atari 2600 and it was already early 90's. I've been using C64 until 93 or 34. Still remember my first vidya breasts for some reason. Cassettes were a pain let me tell you. There were a bunch of games that I never finished, cause they couldn't get attuned to my cassette drive. Weird times. I remember playing Street Fighter 2 with only one stage and two characters. Nothing more would fit on a single track. Games were fun though.